Featured UUSJ Actions

The Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice (UUSJ) follow policy in our government and create actions that promote our UU Values. Each month they release a newsletter with featured actions. These are reproduced for you below.

April 2025 Featured UUSJ Actions

Updated Action: Stop the SAVE Act (Focus on Senators)

On April 10, the House passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a bill that would complicate participation and present barriers to the ballot box for women, Transgender people, Black and Latino, young and rural voters across the U.S. In that complication it would limit the voting power, and silence the voices of these Americans, despite being eligible voters. 

See our statement about its passage in the House. We decry this vote from a posture of profound moral concern for voting rights and easy access to the ballot. We urge Senators to reject the Act. For more, see the Faithful Democracy letter we joined about the SAVE Act. 

• Fact Sheet: the SAVE Act, CLC

• SAVE Act Would Undermine Voter Registration for All Americans, Brennan Center

• The SAVE Act: A Voter Suppression Tactic Disguised as Election Integrity, Feminist Majority Foundation

• 9 Things to Know About the Proposed SAVE Act, National Conference of State Legislatures

• Trump seeks to mandate proof of citizenship in voter registration, NPR

Opposition to the Budget Cuts and Harms

On April 10, the House of Representatives voted to pass a budget resolution after the Senate successfully passed an amended version of the House’s bill (review the Roll Call). This resolution sets the outline for the federal budget framework through Fiscal Year 2034.

UUSJ objects to the budget proposal being negotiated, see our statement about its passage in the House. How we got here: 

February 21 – The Senate passed a first attempt at a budget resolution, 52-48.
February 25 – The House voted to pass a version of the budget resolution, 217-215. 
April 5 – The Senate took up and passed an alternative resolution amending the House framework. This version passed 51-48, with Republican Senators Collins and Paul joining all Democrats to oppose the resolution.
April 10 – The House passes the altered budget resolution, 216-214.

• GOP adopts budget framework, paving the way for Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’, Politico

• House vote clears way for reconciliation bill action, PwC

• The latest on the 2025 budget resolution, FNN

• What’s in the FY2025 Budget Resolution, BPC

• Reaction to Budget Resolution Adoption, CRFB

• The Federal Budget and Its Impact on the Social Safety Net, Explained, SPLC

• Amid Rising Recession Risks and Tariff Price Hikes, House Republicans Advance Budget Plan That Would Raise Costs for Millions of Families, CBPP

March 2025 Featured UUSJ Actions

No cuts to human needs programs

Take Action: Tell Both your Senators and your Representative what you think

The legislative proposals in both chambers articulate a massive restructure of our approach to human needs policy and programs in the U.S. They authorize a massive and unconscionable transfer of wealth from people of humble means to wealthy and billionaire Americans. They do so in the form of resource and program reductions for the vulnerable and needy, paired with a bonanza of tax cuts for the greedy.

The House proposal would cut $880 billion from Medicaid and $230 billion from SNAP (food stamps)—yes, billions—to give $1.1 trillion—yes, trillion—in tax breaks to America’s 1% wealthiest individuals.

Oppose immigration harms in the Budget Reconcialtion process

Take Action; See the list of Senators and Representatives who need to hear your concern

As Unitarian Universalists, we believe all people have inherent worth and dignity, should be treated with respect and compassion, and have fundamental civil and human rights and protections under U.S. and international law. Therefore, UUSJ opposes the administration’s approach to immigration, particularly family separations and mass deportations, and especially at the cost of human needs policy and programs.

Let’s urge Congress to show mercy and compassion and refuse to fund mass roundups, detentions, and deportations.